Every community has those roads or intersections that seem prone to accidents. However the task of fixing these areas can be daunting.

Agencies are plagued with questions such as:

* Where/what are the highway safety problems?

* What can we do to address the problems?

* In what order do we address the problems?

* Do the benefits justify the costs?

This program will explain how safety data and the new FHWA systemic safety project selection tool can be used to address these issues. Highway safety improvement projects are designed to improve safety by minimizing or eliminating risk to roadway users. Rather than managing risk at certain locations, a systemic approach takes a broader view and looks at risk across an entire roadway system.

A system-based approach acknowledges crashes alone are not always sufficient to determine what countermeasures to implement, particularly on low volume local and rural roadways where crash densities are lower, and in many urban areas particularly those where there are conflicts between vehicles and vulnerable road users (pedestrians, bicyclists, and motorcyclists). Join us to see how utilizing data can save lives on your agency’s roads.

This program has been approved for .2 CEUs or 2 PDHs. Please note there is a $7 fee per non-member individual requesting CEUs - there is no fee for members.

Speaker:

Karen Y. Scurry, P.E.

Karen Scurry is a transportation specialist with the Federal Highway Administrationâ€™s Office of Safety. Her primary duties involve activities to support implementation of the Highway Safety Improvement Program and promoting the use of crash modification factors in the decision making process.

Speaker:

Jason Taylor

Senior Project ManagerAscension Parish, LA

Jason Taylor, is a senior project manager with the Ascension Parish Engineering Department in Louisiana. Taylor, spent the past two years as a safety engineer for Louisiana Transportation Research Center, an effort by LSU and the state Department of Transportation and Development that focuses on improving the stateâ€™s transportation systems. He also worked 12 years as an engineer with the East Baton Rouge Parish government.

Speaker:

Moderator: Carla P. Anderson, P.E.

Carla P. Anderson, P.E., is a Senior Traffic Engineer at the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) in the Bureau of Transportation Safety and Technology. Her role at KDOT is to oversee Highway Safety Improvement (HSIP) projects, conducts Road Safety Audits and Traffic Studies. She also is the American Public Works Association (APWA) Road Safety Sub Committee Chair, working under the APWA National Transportation Committee. Carla received her BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Kansas and is licensed as a Professional Engineer and has approximate 16 years in road and highway design and 5 years of traffic engineering experience.

Speaker:

Robert Pollack

FHWA Safety Data Manager Office of Safety

Current Position:Federal Highway AdministrationTransportation Specialist (since November 2005) in the Office of SafetyKey projects: Development of the Model Inventory of Roadway Elements (MIRE), Co-Project Manager for the MIRE Management Information System Project, Developer of the Crash Data Improvement Program (CDIP) and currently working on developing the Roadway Data Improvement Program (RDIP)